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Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1859-12-27

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1 ? i) - f v ro L! .1 u -'! b - VOLUME XXItt, MOUNT VERNON, OHIO :j TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27. 1859. NUMBER 36. v 1 I wiT lie t I , tealh have teaci thor TIIC SXOTT. There Is a moral in the snow, the falling mow, xoming ia angel puriiy from heaven, to be be-grimmed and trodden down in the highways, and finally tobedisolved into a sightless dm with garbage and slash. Who has paraphrased this tooni to charmingly? We find the following floating about the sea of newspaperdom, and though ita mournful cadences fall upon our ear like the strains of well remembered music, we cannot recall the author's name. It is wot thy of Hood or Lamb, bat is now a waif waiting to be reclaimed.' Read it, dear friends, and again thank God that you are not reckless, hopeless. homeless, desolate, wandering on the earth when the Frost King rules its destine with his terrible sceptre, hoping aadyel not daring to die. Xoa tirilie Journal. Once I was Pure. t)h! tbe (Do, tha beautiful anow, Filling tha akr and arth balow; "Over the hoao-top, over tba strsaV Ovar tba bead of the paopla 70a meet, 5aoctng . Flirting', . Skimming; along, - Beautiful snow! it can do nothing wronj, Flying to kis a fair lady cheek, 'Clinging to lipa in a frolicksome freak, ., Beautiful f now from the hearen abovo. Pure as an angel, gentle a lore! Oh! the anow, the beautiful now, How the flalf ther anl lnngb a J tbejr go! Whirling about iu its maddening fun, It playa in it glee with every oue, Chasing, - ': . Laughing, Hurrying bjv . It light np the face and it rparklei the eye! .And even tha dogs, with a bark and a bound, np at the crystal that eddy around. The town is alive, and its heart in aglow, To welcome th coming of beautiful slow! How the wild crowd goei sway ing along, Hailing each other with hutuor and nong! -: How the gay sledges, like meteors flash by, - Bright for the moment, than lost to tha eye; Singing, Swinging, Dashing they go, . . Orer the crust of the beautiful snow: Snow so pure when it fall from the sky. To be trampled in the mud by the crowd rnhing by -To be trampled and tracked by the tbouaands of feet Till it blend with the filth in the horrible streets. Once I was pure as the snow butlfell! ; Fell like the anow flake from heaven to hell, Fell to be tramplod as filth of the street; Fell to be scoffed, to be spit on and beat; Pleading. Cursing, Dreading to die, Selling my soul to whoever would buy, Dealing in shame for a morsel of bread. Hating the living and fearing the dead; Merciful God! have I fallen so low, And yet I was once like the beautiful mow. Once I was fair a the beautiful snow. With an eye like it eryatnl, a heart like it glow; Once I waa loved far my innocent grace Flattered and sought for the charm of my face! Father, Mother, , Sister, all, Ood, and myself. I hnrc lost by my fall; The veriest wretch that goes hhivering by. Will take a wide sweep, lest I wander too nigh; Forall that is on or shove me, I know, '. There is nothing that pure a :h beautiful snow. How strange it thould be that this beautiful snow Should full en a sinner with no where to go! How strange it should be.when the night comes again If the anow and th ice struck my desperate brain, Fainting. Freeting, , Dying alone, ' Ton wicked for payer, too weak for moan To be heard in the crasy town, V: Gone mad in the joy of the snow coming down, To lie and to die in my terrible woe, With a bed and a abroad of the beautiful snow. SOIfG OFTUE ALPS, BT SCHILLXR. Translated by Thomas CarliU By the edge of the chasm is a slippery track. The torrent beneath, and the mist hanging o'er thee -"I-..'-The cliffs of the mountain; huga, ragged and black. Are frowning like giants before thee; And wonldst thou not waken the sleeping Law in e, , Walk silent and soft through the deadly ravine. JThat bridge, with is diiiying, perilous span, ; Aloft o'er the gulf and its flood suspended Tnlnk'st thou it waa bailt by the art of man. By bis band that grim eld areh wa bended? Far down in the jaw of the gloomy abys The water is boiling and .hissing forever will his. . The gate through the rock is as darksome and drear. As if to the regions of shadows it carried: Yt enter! A sweet laughing landscape is here, Where the spring with the autumn is married. From the world, with its sorrows and warfare and ,wail.- .. . ' O aoold I bat bide In this bright little rale! Tf "n down from oa high, .Their spring wat w hid(J,a fortrer. Th. ennra. U UsUn, foarpoinU ef the ukj, Te aeh point of the sky u rirer-And fast a they start from tbalr old mother's feet, They dash forth, aad ne more will they Twe pinnae! rise te tba depth of the bine, ' Aloft an their white summit glancing, Bdek'd la .their garmeaU of golden dew, . Ths'eload of the sky are daaeing; There threading alone their lightsome maze. Uplifted apart from all mortal gaae. -:- And Ugh ea her ever eadariag throne . " ' Tbeqsaea cf t!e mean tala reposes, rjrll 1- .9, f;l asare, atdlonej '' " . AT-;" ' fsia ineloseer.".,". ' . :.t.. -. ' ZU i-a t i ( -1 ilool rcaaJlVi a4boW r c-"i4.t J;e warms UtV lie mw mvtx. GREAT SPEECH OF : Gcd. Caleb Cusliing, AT THE UNION MEETING. BOSTON. ' President Lin'oolv said : Fellowitizkks: Another of our most eminent and distinguished fellow-citizens who has entitled himself to your confiJeuce and honor, as well, as to that of the whole country, by great services rendered in different departments of the State and of the Union, will favor you with his thoughts and counsels upon the momentous sub ject which occupies your attention. I have the pleasure of inviting to the platform Gen. Cashing.General Cushing, thus introduced, was receiv. ed with thunders of applause. He proceeded to speak as foilows : Mr. PauiDKXT : I rejoioe that to yon, sir, on this occasion, all speech is ia the first instance to be addressed to yoa, the living repr.snia-live as a name ever honored in the councils of this Stale and of the United States, and of blood sacrificed, generation; alter generation, by the red baptism of the battle-field applauaej to you who, called from the retirement of years at the voice of your country's peril, stand in your veoerable whita hairs, lifid by age far above those interests and passions that may move us It'sser men, and stand there at, a monumental marble statue of the belter davs of the Republic. Tloud applause, the fit patriot to preside over ilia great aibttuWlape of tne aroused and uprising patriot! 4tn of Mas'sachtisotts. Renewed np-pl&use. Ob, sir, that Webster and Choate were here ! Applause. Ob, that Webster were here to utter words of wisdom in thone crave tones of his. like the deep cloud voices of the say 1 uc, tuat inoate were 1. ere to stream up on you tne liisdcs 01 nis mina. like the Jibtu- iig of that ky 1 Ob, that Webster and Choate were here, ha, if living, they would be, to. rebuke terason together ; to hurl upon its foul bend the blazing thunderbolts of tliir corn. their indignation, and tbir wrath! tumultuous cheerine. nd cries of " Good," good," and to proclaim. trumpei-tougued, to earth and to heaven, the fraternal sympathy of the brave old Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the brave old Colony of Virginia," Renewed applause J Alas, alas, they are ?one ; but cu you, sir. (addressing Mr- Everett,) their companion and ilieir friend, their mantle has dsceuded Applause. Most'. "nobly do you this day wear it, as, in such thoughts and words of transcendent elquence as you alone, of .living, men .'command,-' cheers, you have Spoken here for ibe paee and for the honor of MasB-chuselis. For me, what remains ? An humble part on this occasion. Now, fellow citizens, let me tnrn to you. And, before addressing to you ibose reflections which occurred to roe as pertinent to this occasion, permit me to offer a word of personal preface. Let j roe assure you, most solemnly, that I stand here with no possible thought apart from the perfor- r 1 r : i. mituce iu iny uuij lu mjuii, iu me aiiempi, at 1 leant, to utter worthy thoughts in behalf of the ...:.i 1 1. - . -r t- u ... I isruibucu uuuut ui .un9aLiiueus. r or mat,.) and for that aloi.e, I stood upon this platform two year apo, and 1 endeavored to show tbe people of Massachusetts that this great Republic, the glory of modern .civilization, amia thecrimi-na'.i-.ns and recrimmiuaf ions, Nnr:b and South, amid tbe conflicts-of intercts and passions which were shaking it to its -centre,- seemed 'o be on the point of committing national suicide, . in a tramporl of national madness. I endeavored to show you how it wan that a handful of hifrhlv intellectual but mosJL misguided men in tbi? State of MaSAohii'etts. : animated with monomania of fanatical' devotion to one single idea, bad poisoued the consciences and corrupted the judgments -of -so. mau'y "f -their fellow-t-itizens in thin Commonwealth.' I-Showed you bow. under the ifitltience of .their inaliiru teaching! all partv action. North aud South, was Tunning in the channel of a desperate and deplornble sectionalism, and thatv above all, here in Massachuse ts. all the pohtic-at it-flu. noes dominant in this State were founded upon the single emotion t.f bate. Aye, hate treKfberous, ferociotiR. fiendish hate of our fellow-citizens in the Southern States;" applause, and cries of " srood," good ;" and I pleaded to you Conciliation, mutual forbearance, reconcilement of conflictine interests, in order that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts might resume her appropriate place: a the guide of ihe patriotism ot these United, states. 1 pleaded unsuccessfully. I ente red the legislature of Massachusetts, there to attack this sectionalism in its slroLghold. 1 failed of success. I said to myself, in a moment of despondency, why struggle in vain? Why draw upon myself tbe odium ot my fellowciiizens by struggling in Tain against this malign influence? What are time and tide to me? leap play my part in tbe dram ma of life, whether it be peace or war, cheers; and if these misguided passions are ' to bring upon our nappy land tbe calamity ot civil war, devasta tion, massacre, ruin, God will provide me a duty to perform, and the head end the hand to do and to suffer, according to the wifl of His good providence. Applause-1 But, Genilemen. it seemed to me still that there was hope. I resolved to try the experiment, aud aee whether or not the heart of Mas? sachuaetis was sourd. I undertook tbe defence of three ol my fellow-citizens, indicted by the State of Massachusetts, in the performance of what tbey thought to be a duty to tbe Constitn- tion ot the United States and to their counlrv, uuuuju iu iiutBiwu ui iiio-uDcousdiuiionai law and unconstitutional opinion cf the State of Massachusetts, (cheers ;) and there, ia that humble village court house at Barnstable there, in the presence of that npright judge, of that conscientious jury, 1 aid nnd tbat tbe heart of the Common wealth was sound to tha core, (great cheering J that it needed only that men should be reasoned with frankly, undiseuisedlv. m or der to dispel from their minds those delusions of one-idead fanaticism which seems to be hurry- ing tne common weaun and norrying tbe Union into the unfathomable abyss of destruction. And now, fellow-citizens, as I stand here, as I see here a representation of the intelligence, of the wisdom, of the virtue, of the strong hearts, and strong hands of the people of Massachusetts, hope and confidence return to my heart. Ap plause. All is not lost. Nay, nothing is lost, with such sentiments, with such feelioes as are this day exhibited in Faneail Hall. Renewed applause. Now, gentlemen, to my own homble task. Fellow-citizens : A citizen of one of the North- era States of this Union, at the head of other citizens, oa a certain Lord's Dar, on that day of holy, rest, entered armed armed for murder and treason into the State of Virginia, burst open the houses of private citizens, and seized them and their property by force, and slaughtered ta the street iaoffeasive, unarmed men. He on-dertook. than and there to establish a revolution, ary government, and proposed to arouse there, to Iua4l there, thoa flame, of civil and servile war, ad to brinf apoa that peaceful community and Stat all thoae horrors ef massacre, desolation, raDtne and ravishment that follow in tha train f a e;ril and servile wai. 80 engaged, be was arrested ia the verj act of blood,red-hand-ad, with his mordarad victims at his feat, and kali to trial bj tha jostle oTUis QommoawaaI;h of Virginia. He was deliberately carried before a conrt of examining magistrates : he was, in the dne course of law, presented to the grand jury of tbe county ; be was by that grand jury indicted and arraigned before the courts of the state. Before those courts he received not only justice not only merciful treatment, but even more than. in the: ordinary course of the administration of justice, ts granted to prisoners in this Common wealth. He had each counsel assigned to him as be chose ; he had those counsel changed at bis will for other counsel, and he was deliber atelr and fully tried, and upon that full and de liberate trial he was convicted of a violation of the laws of Virginia ; and upon that couviction be was sentenced, and upon that sentence he was executed by the authorities of tbe State of Virginia. (Applause, and cries of " Good, " Ood.nl He was executed as bavin? iustlv forfeited bis life to the peace and to the laws of Virginia. Nay, m anticipation of this, he has enjoyed all possible resources of argument and investigation of the law, to see if there were any defect in the proceedings of the trial, and all such questions of law as his counsel able and learned n.en found to be competent, were carried to tbe highest court of appeal of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and there considered. I say to you, gentlemen, that, upon these facts, John Brown was duly and lawfully tried, convicted, sentenced, and executed, (applause ;) that rendered up a forfeited life to the justice of the State of Virginia ; unless, gentlemen, it were the fact for no other possible question of law could stand in the way that the 6tale of Virginia had no jurisdiction of the offence committed. If the State of Virginia had jurisdiction, then ber deter-mi nation of that question was to be unappealable on this earib. -That is the law of the land; that is tbe law of the State of Massachusetts ; and there are very many gentlemen her who, will: remember when a prisoner was capitally convicted in the State of Massachusetts, ;on due trial before our coartfl, how indignant the people of Massachusetts were that certain persons and journals of the States of New York and Penn. tsylvania. should presume insolently to question, the legality 'of this action of ihe courts of Massachusetts: It was for us to determine that qaes-tion, we said j and we said truly ; that is the fun-, damental principle of Stale sovereignty our undisputed rig'ht to try a criminal found red-handed on our own soil. Was there conflicting jurisdiction in this case? Gentlemen, it happeued to mc, when' administering the laws of tbe United States, to render an opif ion that the armory at Harper's. Ferry is under the exclusive jurisdiction of tbe United States, and in no part of tbe jurisdiction of the State ot V lrginia. . J hat opiuion was true. I know it. 1 ktsow it as well as I know the multiplication table, . or'. -that the square of the by pothenuse of a right-aogled triangle is equal to the square of the ttvo sides. Loud ' applause j The counsel for John Browu taid that this opinion was incompatible witTi the progress of tbe trial, inasmuch as. John Brown-must be indicted in the courts of ihe United States, and could not he tried in the courts of.. Virginia. - To this point of law, founded np n my opinjon, the counsel for tbe Com mon wealth replied, improvideutly, inconsiderately, uuwisely, ihbt my opinion was not good law ; that it might be good law in Mas sachnisetts, but it as not good'law ia Virginia; and thereuirtin the trial proceeded. I say that was an "ill-advised suggestion on Ibe paxLcf ibe counsel for he 0mnion wealth, because ft rreat4 ed the imprvsifn through ihe Northern States J that Virgitiia-had really usurped.tbe powerof the Unittd Stau s. Fr the law did riot reet npon my opinion. Tbre were adjudications of rourt after court througl-.tiut tbe Ut'in which establibh ed it. i say tbat was an ill-advised suggestion. Geritlemnn. if it had been so,. I say here, bnt in private 1 have, said to others, I myself would have done that inot ifevicious tbingfer me to do I would have gone to the Slate of Virginia, I would have appealed to Judge Parker, of the circuit court, i Senators Mason end Hunter, and to Governor W'i.-ie, of Virginia I would' have appealed to tl.eth- ty every consideratit.n of old aivd lone friendship and resoeet, I have appeal-id to their sense of honor and regard, not to the United Statss only, but to the Commou wealth of Virginia, todesis. from that procedure. Nay, I would have gone one-step further ; I wnuld have presented myself before the Chief J uatics of the United States, aud I would have obtained from Roger B. Taney a writ of error to appeal that question to the tribunals of the United Slates. Applause. Why did I not? Gentlemen, a day or two dissipated all the mists of this imaginary . question of law. True; acts of murder, acts, if you please, of treason, acts of burglary, acts of rapine, bad heen perpetrated upon the grounds cf tbe armory at Harper's Ferry, but not there only ; for John Brown, in this most in-insane whatever may be said of the character of the roan most criminal outrage, had been guilty of five violations of law, three of them, at least, capital felonies by the laws of the State of Virginia. He had perpetrated burglary, rob bery, incitement to sedition, treason, murder-three at least, I say, capital felonies ; and each one of these Capital felonies," whatever other fel onies he may have committed within the Jinits of Harper s r erry armory, he had perpetrated outside the limit of Harper's Ferry Armory, and in the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the Com-monweahh of Virginia. T Applauso. That was the law of this caee :,aod I now, therefore, say to yon, gentlemen I say it upon my judgment as a jurist, I say it on mv honor as a man that John Brown was duly and lawfully convicted, in full course of law ; that, whatever forms were involved, they were for the exclusive determination of tbe State of Virdinia; and there Vas no substantial question to be determined, for there was no question with regard to the guilt of the prisoner. ; Who says John Brown was not guilty ? Wbp says be did not commit burglary? Who says he did not perpetrate ir.vason and treason ! Who says he did not slay unarmed, inoffensive men in the streets of Harper s Ferry ? No man denies this. Nay, instead of denying this all that is said and done in regard to that is to as sume that those acts of atrocious, ferocious felony were mritorious acts! I say, then, gentlemen, all honor to the State of Virginia, loud applause, and cries of " good," "good," to her judicial authorities ; all honor to the State of Virginia that this traitor and murderer, appre-J bended iu the very act of murder and treason, was duly, fully tried and convicted according to the law of the land, not alone of the State of Virginia, but of every one of the States of the Union. (Applause.) Bat then, gentlemen. In these most extraordinary manifestations which have occurred in the State of Massachusetts and elsewhere prayer meetings, public assemblies of reioicing, and pretended subscription- (laughter and applause) in all these, it is said there is extenuation (if there bono other snggestions) applicable to the case, that should change' our appreciation of the character of tbe acts of John Brown. ."Extenuation!" What extenuation? .Gentlemen we bave been told that John Brown was maddened to perform these acts by a sense of tha wrong committed : upon him in the violent death of one of .bit zona in Kansas. That is a question of fac. Is it ao, gentlemen? Fellow' citizen; we' live' here in a populous Commonwealth, with all Ibe securities of life aitd peace around ns. nnder the shelter, not only of the lavs, but of our; relations to our fellow citizens. But go with me to one' of those fertile prairies of tbe far West; go with me to tbe frontier cab- ia f pioneer settle' i tbe far West, There gentlemen, in the dead of night, the husband reposing in tbe arms of his beloved wife, with their dear little due around them, in the fancied repose of their common security under the-laws of their country, I they are aroused from their slumbers by the treacherous approach of armed murderers. Tbei husband two husbands are torn from the areas of their wives, and ruthless ly slaughtered in cold blood. Nay, their youth- lul children are brained before their eyes Me thinks I can bear now the wailing cry of that poor woman, aianaia . LJovIe of that uabannv Louisa Wilkinson that wailing cry should smite upon tbe- ears and enter the hearts of every one of us as they cling to the limbs of the murderer and pry for the deliverance of-tbeir husbands and their children. But tbey spoke to a merciless beart, for they spoke to John Brown! iA voice "That has been denied."! I say, gentlemen.'denv it who will and who dare that man teas Join Btmcn. fL6ud cheers.l n .m ' .i' e tie was mere, nia sword dnrome with the core of those slaughtered, inoffensive, peaceful, slum bering men aud children and that sword came from the State of Massachusetts. I sav this is proved, it is proved by incontrovertible evi eviuence. xnat. nviuence exists on record in the report ol the! committee appointed by the J - rr .l . uouse ot Kepresentattres to examine into the disorders in Kansas. I say that murderous act of John Brown was the commencement of blood shed iu Kansas. And bv the lurid liebt of those blazing houses, and by the reflection of tbe demoniac cruelty of that man on that occasion by all that we have the key to events whith might otherwise have been yet in mystery. mat is tne commencement . of bloodshed in these United States, and it was in that same spirit that John Brown, with ' an insane ferocity of cruelty, proposed to consign the peaceful in- naUitants ot tbe State; of -.Virginia, the millions and millions of white men and white women, to servile insurrection and civil war. and to out rages indescribable, impossible to be imagined. worse than a million deaths. But it is said that John Brown was insane, and therefore that he should not have been convicted. as he insane? Gentlemen, I have manv times bad occasion in ibis Common wealth all reflecting men have bad occasion to meet a similar question. - .1 cannot, nieet-. that question without speaking plainly. Shall I speak p.ain'ly? General cri s of "Yes," "yes."j I suy, in this Com monwealth of Massachusetts, and in its aniuiuinir State of New York, there is a handful of men of highly intellectual mind; of tbe highest cul ture," literary and scientific; men who would seem to be born to bless their day and genera lion Wendvll Phillips. Llovd. Garrison. Waldo Emerson, Theodore Purker, aud Gerrit Smith- who, by constant brooding upon one single idea that idea,i if you please, a right one have beAnje monomauiacs of that i ca. (applause,) and have become utterly lost to the moral relations of right and wrong. In their private relations not oue of them would injure the baireven of my head, (Laughter.) Not one of them, unless upon the question cf slavery;' and then such is tbe atrocious ferocity of mind into which they have been betrayed by this monomania that tbey declare, in so many words and,, therefore I may say it is so-lheir readiness to break down all laws, human and divine nay, that, under the influence of this monomania, they have set up in this Commonwealth a religion of hate ye, a reliioa ifhie auch as tielongs ouly to the condemned dervila in Tiell. (Applause.) I' say it is a religion of hate aud and of blasphemy. Ob, God! that such things are in this our day. ' - ; Tbey have set np this religion of bate, and they blasphemously call that Christianity.,' I put this question to- yu, whether these demoniac passious and this ferocity upon the sul jectof shivery institutions have not sacrificed all there; is. in the human heart, and all there is divine iu ibe a-pirationa of human hearts to God and to Heaven? This they have done, and the question is asked, are they sasit? I cannot pronounce on that quention. What would a commission of lunacy , say upon that question? I know not. I know thai tbe.-imputed insanity of John Brown is that his intelligence has become perverted, that his heart is gangrened, that his soul is steeled against.' everything.:' human and consciousness by that same monomania which pervadts the fptecbes and writings of Weudell Phillips and Waldo Emerson. Are they insane? I say again, I know not, and yet I pause"to ask, have we not before us the spectacle most painful to every well-stltled heart, have we not the spectacle of one of their number, as wise in his day and generation as they, with the same pretences of good and of right, and the same perversion of Christianity and the Bibles-have we not before ns the spectacle of Gerrit Smith in a hospital for lunatics in the State f New York? I knr-w not, but I do say .tfcat unless all mono-maic abolitionists are to bo deemed insane and incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong, in a question of murder and of treason and of burglary . and of robbery, then John Brown was cot insane, and therefore was not entitled to any consideration upon that pretext; and we know well that he would have been the last to assume any such, pretext, we know well that he acted with that stolid indifference to the atrocity of his acts which in all time has distinguished political and religious assassins which may be found in the plot of Goy Fa wkes, which animated Ravaillac when be struck his poniard into the heart of a good and great roan. 'The same spirit animated the assassins of Italy, who to prevent the progress of moderate reform, and to substitute their own monomania, slaughtered Rossi at the steps of the Vatican. In Vienna ibe good Count Lemborg, and in Prague the Princess Wisdischgratz, were assassinated in the same spirit of insane attempts at political reform. That is the distinctive qualitj of these offences. The idea of John Brown is that by cold-blooded, fraudulent, midniarht assassination he is to promote the reform of tbe institutions of the State of Virginia aud of the Southern States. So, gentlemen, I now say that not only was John orown amy and legally tried and convicted, but that he was duly and lawfollv executed, and ren dered- up his justly forfeited life to the justice of the Mate of V irginia. TAnnlanse.1 What more, gentlemen? We have had our ears filled with alleged stnpathies for John Brown of apologies for his act, of reproaches against the persons whom he was endeavoring to glaugh- ter in cold blood, of sneers at the State of Virginia, of ridicule of the terror of the unarmed women and children of Virginia. I say sympathy for all this. Gentlemen, it is not sympathy for John Brown. It is another form of the manifestation of that same intense and ferocious hatred of the people of the sooth wbieb animates the persons of whom we are speaking. I Applause. J Hatred hatred! Now the fact has been told us that in all times hate must have its food of blood, aye, bate must bave its food of blood. How long are the people of Massachusetts to have their souls continually perverted with these preachings aye, pulpit preachings of hatred, though, thank God. these blasphemous preachers of hatred and treason aer but one to a thousand among the' admirable and revered clergymen, of Massachusetts. fApp-piaase.J I ask you, gentlemeu, how long these emotions of mutual hate are 10 ro on without shedding blood. Blood baa begun to boshed nay, not only has there been sheddirg of blood but ibatsheddisepf blood, coming from North ern States, has its avowed object to propagate mrounoni me tooutuern btatea revolution, asr- ile and etTil war e eiaraal ievistation. by, gentlemen, ia not that war in diguise? oeeks you, will to disguise it from your own tboughs, that is the thought in tha hearts of those persons who entertain these emotions. It ts war in disguise, and it presents this extraordi nary fact, gentlemen such a fact as exists nowhere else upon this earth in any Civilized coun try. Jt piesents tbe extraordinary - fact that, where a if any citizens of Massachusetts should fit out a hostile expedition against Canada, should prepare arms in the citv of Boston. should raise money and troops for the nnrcoae of invaaing England or r ranee, there is abundant law to punish that act. and to arrest the offen der in the prosecution of the crime; but in this Union there is no law to punish the fact that a citizen cf Ohio, Pennsylvania, or Massachu setts engages tn biting out an expedition of pri vate war and invasion and bloodshed against the oiaie 01 Virginia. cere im no law to lorbid it- It would Seem that our forefathers, in omitting to provide, had acted as we are told the old re publics did in regard to the crime of parricide uiey did not believe that anything so abomi nable could occur tn the United States, and therefore they provided no law to Duniah it. - Now, gentlemen, what would you think, and what would be your condition, if such an invasion of slaughter and of murder were aftemted by citizens of Virginia in Massachusetts? Would you not think it strange that you had no protection, by any law whatever, against such an act? that you were living in the Union, not for the purpose of enjoying is benefits, but only to be subject to nostue inroads trom other States? Would you not think that strange, extraordinary, incredible intolerable? What would you say if that state ot things went on year after year, even for a generation almost? What would you say if in the State of Virginia there were organized bands of invaders, armed by subscription societies in Richmond, who" entertained in their heart the sentiment of hatred which would cause them to plant those arms at your heart if they could reach it? Would von not sav. gentlemen, onen war is better than war in disguise? In open war we, al least, could meet our enemies face to face, and wiih the possible chance of a gal atit death with brave encounter with the foe: but to be slaughtered treacherously at midnight and no remedy for. that by the laws of the land gentlemen, that is an impossible state of tbirgs to continue in the United States. And et us not lay the flattering unction to our souls that we may, in the State of Massachusetts, continue to organize expeditions of rapine and reason and murder against the State of Vir ginia 1 say let us not lay that flattering unction to our souls. Way, we ought not to do it. If weare men. if we have a SDark of honor in na if we are not utterly corrupted, perverted, and lost to every sense of truth and of honor, are shail say and ouebt to sar. it is mean, it ia in describably, unspeakably nien to insist npon enjoying tbe benefits of the Union without participating in its burdens, and treacherous to de mand the execution of the bond of Union bv tbe State of Virginia and not execute it ourselves; it is hypocritical to approach and say: "Art thou well, my brother - for the purpose of stabbing him under the fifth fib. I say, it would be mean treacherous, hypocritical, to pretend that that state of things is to continue, and, therefore, we are here assembled to discountenance ail such sentiments, all such passions, and all such criminal enterprises on the Dart of the Deonle of ti.a Tforthern Slates against more of tte SmtW, We vaunt the greatness of the United States: our memories are filled with the reminiscence of the glories of the Revolution: we look back upon the Washingtons, tbe Greens, and the Lin coins of the days of the Revolution, aud we say that these heroes and demigods a-e not tbe heroes and demigods of Virginia or Massachusetts, but of the United States. We are one nation. We are one in constitutional bond:, we should be one in heart and patriotic devotion. Shall we in Massachuset's continue to nourish the senti tnents of mutual raneor and hostility upon an an abstract question wholly beyond our reach and authority? : If we do so, gentlemen, we know well the consequences. ' We know that not only must this federal compact break by its own weight, we know not only that tbe time baa come when we shail all have to say farewell to the glories of the Union, farewell to the vaunted glories of the American Union; but when there will be the more terrible and dismal spectacle of civil war upon our Own soil in Massachusetts; For, gentlemen, when we look forward to the consequences of a disruption of this Union, is the North then to invade the South for the purpose of carrying on an armed prosecution of these projects of interference with the institutions of the South? Will the North undertake that? Gentlemen, if the North does undertake that it will sacrifice everything of peace and honor for a delusion and a shade. Will the North do it? Gentlemen, are there not gallant and patriotic men enough in the State of. Massachusetts who," if any such traitorous purpose should be attempted against the South war of invasion for the destruction of the Union and the government of the Union are there not men enough here to seize the traitors by the throat, loud cries of "yes, yes," and great applause, and say, "You must walk ovefour bodies, you shall not engage in this fratricidal, suicidal, civil war with your fellow-citizens of other States!" I tay, that whenever this state of things approaches that war will not be upon Mason & Dixon's line, but it will be here upon the soil of New England, and upon those who declare that tbe Constitution of the country, between these who hate the Constitution of the country, between those who declare that the Constitution is a covenant with the devil and a league with hell I say, there will be war between them and those who are devotedly attached to the Constitution, and determined at all hazards to maintain the Union. Applause. Now, gentlemen, I have long enough occupied your attention. 1 will, however, suggest one other train of thought of a practical nature appropriate to the circumstances which surround us now in the State of Massachusetts. Gentlemen, we have bad depicted to us the horrors of civil war. We have seen what would come if this great and glorious Republic should, like others of tbe old time, explode under the convulsions of civil wrath, aud go down in destruction and dark ness to the realms of Erebus and Nox. We have seen the dangers; and is there a remedy? Can we avert these evils? - Can we contribute to avert them? We can, yoa can. Gentlemen, it is most remarkable in the present condition of tne state or .Massachusetts, that more than one half of tbe registered voters of the Common' wealth do obstinately and persistently refuse to exercise the elective franchise; aye, more that one half the registered voters of Massachusetts. And yet, tbe government of a State is that which the suffrages of its people provide. Tbe public opinion of a State is that which a majority, an apparent majority, of its people pronounce. What ia the voice of a majority of the people of this Stste? I say,mor than one balf of its registered votes have not, in speech or. act, at least to discharge that great civtt datr here to day in Faneui! Hall. "Will they go oa- from words to acts? Will thereby their acta, manifest their da votion and attachment to .tbe btmCf of Massachusetts? Gentlemen, 1 speak bare for no party. I lave bt own party prepossessions, strong enough as joa all know, bat I ear l speak for no party htre. But wool i that' yoa, the 123,003 registered voters of Massachusetts who do not vot,aod who bave the voice and vote of the State, and leave the foverotaent cf the State ia tbe land j f 3; 3 cir I wosll tiat joa would act. If you do not like tbe opinions -of either ot tne parties now dividing tbe country, rise in the majesty of your strength and crush them alll Applause.! A voice Tbey will do it at tbe proper time. I shall rejoice, sir, at any party defeat which may befall me, so that tne Commonwealth be restored to its proper place in that resplendent galaxy of the constellations of the Union. Gentlemen, a band of drunken mutineers bas seized bold of tbe political opinions of this Cora mon wealth avowed and proclaimed enemies of tbe Constitution of the United States; nay, equal ly clamorous enemies of tbe constitution of the State of Massachusetts; for these same persons denounce, vituperate, and calumniate, with 10 partiality of wraih, both the parties which no divide the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. say, a band of drunken mutineers have seized hold of the control of the public opinion of tbe Slate. Where is the helmsman? Who is he? f A voice, "Burnham. This response excited eboots of laughter. So apt seemed the answer. that every man in the hall, ludicrous as it was, was for a moment thrown from bis gravity. yy nere, I ask, is tba belmsmao? Has be sold himself to the mutineers? No gentlemen; but tbe mutineers stand with a pistol at bis head, commanding'nim to obey or diet And so the good ship of state drifts on drifts, drifts, with the storm howling around, drifts on towards the gulf of perdition, with the black of the pirate flying at the mizen; aye, and the practical death's head at the fore; black, black, all over from truck to keelson. I say, the good ship of State drifts 00 to perdition. (Loud and prolonged ap plause And where are you, the citizens of Mas sachusetts, who si ould ha her officers and. crew? That good ship is freighted with. all your earthly hopes you and your wives and and your dear dear children are there as passengers, and you all sit in torpid apathy, or shameful indecision, or stolid despair. You all sit and see the drun ken mutineers, as they are about to blow up the ship and all it contains, and yoa do not move a band to rescue her from ruin, and to carry ber back to the path of peace and security. I ap peal to you, citizens of Massachusetts, I implore you to awake from thiz lethargy! Rise. I say, in tbe majesty of vour might, people of Massachu settsrise in the majesty of your might, and redeem the honor and the fame of tbe good old Commonwealth, f Enthusiastic cheering 1 A Double Elopement. The New York Ledger tells the following good story : - - A well to-do farmer from Columbia County j came to New York a short time since to reclaim a daughter who had run away from his domicil with a young husband, whose throat the affec" tion ate old gentleman had threatened to cut from ear to ear. It seems that the mother the wid owed mother of this logicious son-in-law was a youthful sweetheart of the said old gentleman, nd jilted him in a peculiarly cruel manner. Hence his hatred of her son, and his wrath when he learned that bis only daughter, whose dying mother bad confided ber to hi tnderct caray bad married that son, and his threat to cut that sou s tbroat. The ireful father-in-law had but little difficulty n finding the boarding house of the youthful pair, but was deterred from visiting tbem by learning that they were guarded by the widow herself bis old and faithless betrothed. After much skirmishing, however, he one day ventured to ring at the door, when he supposed the widow gone out, and was ushered into the parlor where the widow herself was sitting. With a deep frown, he turned to retire, but was detained by small ha d laid gently upon his arm. It was the widow's hand. They were soon seated not far apart- Explanation was'satisfactory. She had always loved him; why was he so rash as to marry another before she had time to explain ? . It was rash, he admitted; nay, more it was wrong; and be was not the man to let a wrong go unrighted if he could right it ; so there he was old, to be sure, but tough and rich, and having much life and service in him yet. Would she help him set matters right? Of course she would. She was not a woman to balk the intentions of a repentant sinner. But what would the young folks say ? " No matter,7' said the tough old fellow, " we'll elope ; we have as good a right to do to as they had." Capital idea. Should be carried out immediately. They packed the widow's trunk, called a back. caught an evening train, reached Columbia County in safety, were married, and sent their cards to the astonished young couple, in New York, who bad become greatly alarmed at tbe widow's prolonged and unaccountable absence. The old gentleman was so well pleased with his covjrde matrimony , that be pardoned his daugh ter and son-in-law. The Southampton (Vajl Hegro Insurrection in 1831. The Journal of Commerce gives, a short and concise account of tba Southampton (Virginia) negro insurrection in 1831, beaded by Nat Tun ner, which spread such alarm through that Commonwealth, in consequence of the foul murders committed. The remembrance of Nat Turner andoflhe barbarities of his gang the inhuman murder of men, women and children, it was, that so started tbe people of the South when first the news of,Harper'a Ferry insurrection was conveyed to them by Telegraph. For a time nd one felt secure for none knew the extent of tbe insurrection, and every slave was suspected of complicity. Fortunately, Brown's hope of a general rising failed, and a security is again felt. Tbe Journal Commerce saysr "?A more successful attempt was made tn Virginia in 1831. The scene of massacre was in tba cotrcty . of Southampton, near tbe North Carolina border. One Nat Turner, a slave of Benjamin Turner, about thirty years of age, ignorant and fanatical, cmsgining himself sent by God to do a great work. His grandmother and mother bad kmg deluded bra with tbe notion that he was born for some extraordinary deed and be waa weak and foolish enough to embrace tbe delcsion .' lie succeeded in persuading a gang of bis faCow slaves ta risa xpea their owners, and perpetrate as indiscriminate massacre. It was a sodden outbreak of which cone were prepared. No such thing bad been known in the history ef the region. All was quiet and peaeeatle. 2?ct!ic vr targeted. Tie fs4- Interesting Dkictir. rols were scarcely ia existence. The taea Lai mostly gone to the camp meeting oc itsricialty. All looked fair without,' a bile a Tolcaaoewaa seething beneath. It was tbe month of Acrurt a month in which tbe ear becomes accustomed . to tbe lond sounds of tbe negroes, gathered ta their harvests sieging la concert, and efUa bsi looing at their work or play, as suits their taste t for tbey bave a special love for nocturnal revelry. Suddenly, on tbe 21st and 22ud of August, 1631, this band of desperate fellows rose upon tbe whites, and commented the mauaca of mea women an d children Among tha murdered were Mr. Travecs, wifa ' and three children, Mrs. TThitebe&d, ber toa, four daughters and one grandchild; lira. Walk and ten children; lira. Williams bet hosbandi and their two sonat Mrs. Jacob Williams and three children, with others, masters and over seers; in all, ffly-jite fell pleading for mercy from tha inhuman monsters. Guns, axes and swords were the weapons used in the murderous work compared with the destruction wrought by which, the scene at Harper's Ferry was one of mercy. The insurgent slaves bad all been das troyed or apprehended, tried and executed, with the exception of the ringleader, without reveal ing anything at all satisfactory as to tbe motives which urged them on, and the means by which they expected to accomplish' their object. All was wrapped in mystery, until Nat Turner, the leader of the gang,- who succeeded in biding himself for two months, was at length captured iu a cave by one man, Benjamin Fhlpps, who waa armed with a shot gun, and to whom Nat sullenly surrendered without offering any resis tance, though armed with a sword. He appear ed to anticipate his doom, and to yield to it as matter of necessity. He was thoroughly exam ined, and made free confessions both of bis deeds and motives, which were those of a finished aa atic Nat was bung on Friday after bis trial, which commenced November 5th. . An Unfortunate Family The Ohio Statesman relates the aad fortune of an unfortunate family. About six months ago, a man named John Sain, confined in tba Penitentiary having been sentenced from sv Cincinnati Court to that prison for life for tba shooting of the seducer of his daughter, whose) name was Richard Singletoe,-vas granted si new trial on error, and removed to tbe Hamilton county jail to await the pleasure of tbe Court. While confined in jail the dacghter, who, ta avenge, he had committed mnrder, also became an inmate of tha jail, together with a younger sister, whom tha older one bad seduced to lead an abandoned life, charged with grand larceny, Befote Kain'a trial came off, the daughters were) tried, found guilty and sentenced, and are now eervinaVtbeuTteTmsintha ..Penitentiary. Tba wear months rolled around, and Kain'a second" trial for the capital offense commenced. Sere-1 ral days were spent in taking testimony, and oa Tuesday last his fata was given to the jury. AP ter eight boars' deliberation, the jury returned a verdict of acquittal. After having spent a year in the Penitentiary and long months in a com4 mon jail, Eain in the language of the law waa permitted to fgo hence without day," while hie two children, the only ones be held dear oa earth, are occupants of the prison he bas escaped The Price cf. & iss. We translate from the Cuuicr det Elats Ukitt of Nov. 21,' the following little speculation, truly French, light, witty and1 amusing; "What is the legal price of a kiss, when tie parties have agreed on no sum by previous too tract? Seven years since, we remember a msg iatrate at Louisville, Kentucky, condemned a, young fellow to pay a married lady 5 damage for a kiss he had taken. As it is not to be im agined that kissing is cheaper in Kentucky thaa in New York, we must believe that tbe valuation) of the Louisville magistrate was so loW,ojly be oiuse the kiss was taken ia an adroit and deli' cate manner. James Sutherland of New Yorh would have come off equally as well, if be bad shown himself equally expert with tbe Kentucky' gallant. Bat, having attempted to snatch a kiaa from Mrs. Bolman, No. 17 James street, in the absence of her husband, be performed his task in a manner so rude, green and awkward, thai the lady justly indignsnt, made complaint before Justice Vorhees. The Justice, after bear' ing all the pros., and! eons,, condemned tbe da-' feodent to pay the fait plaintiff $20, by way o compensation. Thus, by the latest decisions the following are the legal prices of this article) The kissing of a married lady . if adroitly man' a;ed, $5; if awkwardly, The Knssian Empire. The territory is immense, stretching acrosl the north of Europe, across the north cf Aria) and across Behrlng's Strits into America.- Id population it already doables (hat of France' 43,000,000 serfs, 12,000.000 commoners, i,CC0 000 nobles the 48,000,000 serfs till of them U be freemen within fifteen years from the present-time. In agricultural, commercial and mineral resources, boundless. Think ot six heedfeJ Russian ships filled with wheat going to England1 for a market during one twelvemonth! The people, ibe cities, the customs, both oriental and! occidental oriental ia apptarancn, occidental ia life, energy and development. A coSntiy" new in appearance, like America poshing westward south wetward ta the Pac;c to confront the) Russia that is to be j and ia both America tzt Baasis, the mechanical am and intelTfgsace are epreadlng among the mams 'with unexampled fapiditj. " . - -mn mmm mdmm ' , t SartapariUa.Tha tropical root taj a reps' tation wide as the world, for rttr'tg cae class af tbe disorders that aHct Cjaniisd a repefaiioa too which it deserves as tie test antidote possess fof scfofalots co-rj'ainu. Eat ta tJ tror-il Into est, its virtse must teeosctstrs--ted and combined wi;b cllzt etiiflsii list ia-eresTsita power. . Soce rfcl'atle- eompozsJ cf um cnaracier nuca neesed ia tbe eortcne: Head the advertisement cf Dr. Aver'a Carf; V S il.a in our c-ol jmns,sand wa know It 'tse -y. 1 r escor-iun f.-ciatstac'ssccre'Crrrlr ' " : ia Klit 1 2 clrs. Cm L' r:rr:-, i I :

1 ? i) - f v ro L! .1 u -'! b - VOLUME XXItt, MOUNT VERNON, OHIO :j TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27. 1859. NUMBER 36. v 1 I wiT lie t I , tealh have teaci thor TIIC SXOTT. There Is a moral in the snow, the falling mow, xoming ia angel puriiy from heaven, to be be-grimmed and trodden down in the highways, and finally tobedisolved into a sightless dm with garbage and slash. Who has paraphrased this tooni to charmingly? We find the following floating about the sea of newspaperdom, and though ita mournful cadences fall upon our ear like the strains of well remembered music, we cannot recall the author's name. It is wot thy of Hood or Lamb, bat is now a waif waiting to be reclaimed.' Read it, dear friends, and again thank God that you are not reckless, hopeless. homeless, desolate, wandering on the earth when the Frost King rules its destine with his terrible sceptre, hoping aadyel not daring to die. Xoa tirilie Journal. Once I was Pure. t)h! tbe (Do, tha beautiful anow, Filling tha akr and arth balow; "Over the hoao-top, over tba strsaV Ovar tba bead of the paopla 70a meet, 5aoctng . Flirting', . Skimming; along, - Beautiful snow! it can do nothing wronj, Flying to kis a fair lady cheek, 'Clinging to lipa in a frolicksome freak, ., Beautiful f now from the hearen abovo. Pure as an angel, gentle a lore! Oh! the anow, the beautiful now, How the flalf ther anl lnngb a J tbejr go! Whirling about iu its maddening fun, It playa in it glee with every oue, Chasing, - ': . Laughing, Hurrying bjv . It light np the face and it rparklei the eye! .And even tha dogs, with a bark and a bound, np at the crystal that eddy around. The town is alive, and its heart in aglow, To welcome th coming of beautiful slow! How the wild crowd goei sway ing along, Hailing each other with hutuor and nong! -: How the gay sledges, like meteors flash by, - Bright for the moment, than lost to tha eye; Singing, Swinging, Dashing they go, . . Orer the crust of the beautiful snow: Snow so pure when it fall from the sky. To be trampled in the mud by the crowd rnhing by -To be trampled and tracked by the tbouaands of feet Till it blend with the filth in the horrible streets. Once I was pure as the snow butlfell! ; Fell like the anow flake from heaven to hell, Fell to be tramplod as filth of the street; Fell to be scoffed, to be spit on and beat; Pleading. Cursing, Dreading to die, Selling my soul to whoever would buy, Dealing in shame for a morsel of bread. Hating the living and fearing the dead; Merciful God! have I fallen so low, And yet I was once like the beautiful mow. Once I was fair a the beautiful snow. With an eye like it eryatnl, a heart like it glow; Once I waa loved far my innocent grace Flattered and sought for the charm of my face! Father, Mother, , Sister, all, Ood, and myself. I hnrc lost by my fall; The veriest wretch that goes hhivering by. Will take a wide sweep, lest I wander too nigh; Forall that is on or shove me, I know, '. There is nothing that pure a :h beautiful snow. How strange it thould be that this beautiful snow Should full en a sinner with no where to go! How strange it should be.when the night comes again If the anow and th ice struck my desperate brain, Fainting. Freeting, , Dying alone, ' Ton wicked for payer, too weak for moan To be heard in the crasy town, V: Gone mad in the joy of the snow coming down, To lie and to die in my terrible woe, With a bed and a abroad of the beautiful snow. SOIfG OFTUE ALPS, BT SCHILLXR. Translated by Thomas CarliU By the edge of the chasm is a slippery track. The torrent beneath, and the mist hanging o'er thee -"I-..'-The cliffs of the mountain; huga, ragged and black. Are frowning like giants before thee; And wonldst thou not waken the sleeping Law in e, , Walk silent and soft through the deadly ravine. JThat bridge, with is diiiying, perilous span, ; Aloft o'er the gulf and its flood suspended Tnlnk'st thou it waa bailt by the art of man. By bis band that grim eld areh wa bended? Far down in the jaw of the gloomy abys The water is boiling and .hissing forever will his. . The gate through the rock is as darksome and drear. As if to the regions of shadows it carried: Yt enter! A sweet laughing landscape is here, Where the spring with the autumn is married. From the world, with its sorrows and warfare and ,wail.- .. . ' O aoold I bat bide In this bright little rale! Tf "n down from oa high, .Their spring wat w hid(J,a fortrer. Th. ennra. U UsUn, foarpoinU ef the ukj, Te aeh point of the sky u rirer-And fast a they start from tbalr old mother's feet, They dash forth, aad ne more will they Twe pinnae! rise te tba depth of the bine, ' Aloft an their white summit glancing, Bdek'd la .their garmeaU of golden dew, . Ths'eload of the sky are daaeing; There threading alone their lightsome maze. Uplifted apart from all mortal gaae. -:- And Ugh ea her ever eadariag throne . " ' Tbeqsaea cf t!e mean tala reposes, rjrll 1- .9, f;l asare, atdlonej '' " . AT-;" ' fsia ineloseer.".,". ' . :.t.. -. ' ZU i-a t i ( -1 ilool rcaaJlVi a4boW r c-"i4.t J;e warms UtV lie mw mvtx. GREAT SPEECH OF : Gcd. Caleb Cusliing, AT THE UNION MEETING. BOSTON. ' President Lin'oolv said : Fellowitizkks: Another of our most eminent and distinguished fellow-citizens who has entitled himself to your confiJeuce and honor, as well, as to that of the whole country, by great services rendered in different departments of the State and of the Union, will favor you with his thoughts and counsels upon the momentous sub ject which occupies your attention. I have the pleasure of inviting to the platform Gen. Cashing.General Cushing, thus introduced, was receiv. ed with thunders of applause. He proceeded to speak as foilows : Mr. PauiDKXT : I rejoioe that to yon, sir, on this occasion, all speech is ia the first instance to be addressed to yoa, the living repr.snia-live as a name ever honored in the councils of this Stale and of the United States, and of blood sacrificed, generation; alter generation, by the red baptism of the battle-field applauaej to you who, called from the retirement of years at the voice of your country's peril, stand in your veoerable whita hairs, lifid by age far above those interests and passions that may move us It'sser men, and stand there at, a monumental marble statue of the belter davs of the Republic. Tloud applause, the fit patriot to preside over ilia great aibttuWlape of tne aroused and uprising patriot! 4tn of Mas'sachtisotts. Renewed np-pl&use. Ob, sir, that Webster and Choate were here ! Applause. Ob, that Webster were here to utter words of wisdom in thone crave tones of his. like the deep cloud voices of the say 1 uc, tuat inoate were 1. ere to stream up on you tne liisdcs 01 nis mina. like the Jibtu- iig of that ky 1 Ob, that Webster and Choate were here, ha, if living, they would be, to. rebuke terason together ; to hurl upon its foul bend the blazing thunderbolts of tliir corn. their indignation, and tbir wrath! tumultuous cheerine. nd cries of " Good," good," and to proclaim. trumpei-tougued, to earth and to heaven, the fraternal sympathy of the brave old Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the brave old Colony of Virginia," Renewed applause J Alas, alas, they are ?one ; but cu you, sir. (addressing Mr- Everett,) their companion and ilieir friend, their mantle has dsceuded Applause. Most'. "nobly do you this day wear it, as, in such thoughts and words of transcendent elquence as you alone, of .living, men .'command,-' cheers, you have Spoken here for ibe paee and for the honor of MasB-chuselis. For me, what remains ? An humble part on this occasion. Now, fellow citizens, let me tnrn to you. And, before addressing to you ibose reflections which occurred to roe as pertinent to this occasion, permit me to offer a word of personal preface. Let j roe assure you, most solemnly, that I stand here with no possible thought apart from the perfor- r 1 r : i. mituce iu iny uuij lu mjuii, iu me aiiempi, at 1 leant, to utter worthy thoughts in behalf of the ...:.i 1 1. - . -r t- u ... I isruibucu uuuut ui .un9aLiiueus. r or mat,.) and for that aloi.e, I stood upon this platform two year apo, and 1 endeavored to show tbe people of Massachusetts that this great Republic, the glory of modern .civilization, amia thecrimi-na'.i-.ns and recrimmiuaf ions, Nnr:b and South, amid tbe conflicts-of intercts and passions which were shaking it to its -centre,- seemed 'o be on the point of committing national suicide, . in a tramporl of national madness. I endeavored to show you how it wan that a handful of hifrhlv intellectual but mosJL misguided men in tbi? State of MaSAohii'etts. : animated with monomania of fanatical' devotion to one single idea, bad poisoued the consciences and corrupted the judgments -of -so. mau'y "f -their fellow-t-itizens in thin Commonwealth.' I-Showed you bow. under the ifitltience of .their inaliiru teaching! all partv action. North aud South, was Tunning in the channel of a desperate and deplornble sectionalism, and thatv above all, here in Massachuse ts. all the pohtic-at it-flu. noes dominant in this State were founded upon the single emotion t.f bate. Aye, hate treKfberous, ferociotiR. fiendish hate of our fellow-citizens in the Southern States;" applause, and cries of " srood," good ;" and I pleaded to you Conciliation, mutual forbearance, reconcilement of conflictine interests, in order that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts might resume her appropriate place: a the guide of ihe patriotism ot these United, states. 1 pleaded unsuccessfully. I ente red the legislature of Massachusetts, there to attack this sectionalism in its slroLghold. 1 failed of success. I said to myself, in a moment of despondency, why struggle in vain? Why draw upon myself tbe odium ot my fellowciiizens by struggling in Tain against this malign influence? What are time and tide to me? leap play my part in tbe dram ma of life, whether it be peace or war, cheers; and if these misguided passions are ' to bring upon our nappy land tbe calamity ot civil war, devasta tion, massacre, ruin, God will provide me a duty to perform, and the head end the hand to do and to suffer, according to the wifl of His good providence. Applause-1 But, Genilemen. it seemed to me still that there was hope. I resolved to try the experiment, aud aee whether or not the heart of Mas? sachuaetis was sourd. I undertook tbe defence of three ol my fellow-citizens, indicted by the State of Massachusetts, in the performance of what tbey thought to be a duty to tbe Constitn- tion ot the United States and to their counlrv, uuuuju iu iiutBiwu ui iiio-uDcousdiuiionai law and unconstitutional opinion cf the State of Massachusetts, (cheers ;) and there, ia that humble village court house at Barnstable there, in the presence of that npright judge, of that conscientious jury, 1 aid nnd tbat tbe heart of the Common wealth was sound to tha core, (great cheering J that it needed only that men should be reasoned with frankly, undiseuisedlv. m or der to dispel from their minds those delusions of one-idead fanaticism which seems to be hurry- ing tne common weaun and norrying tbe Union into the unfathomable abyss of destruction. And now, fellow-citizens, as I stand here, as I see here a representation of the intelligence, of the wisdom, of the virtue, of the strong hearts, and strong hands of the people of Massachusetts, hope and confidence return to my heart. Ap plause. All is not lost. Nay, nothing is lost, with such sentiments, with such feelioes as are this day exhibited in Faneail Hall. Renewed applause. Now, gentlemen, to my own homble task. Fellow-citizens : A citizen of one of the North- era States of this Union, at the head of other citizens, oa a certain Lord's Dar, on that day of holy, rest, entered armed armed for murder and treason into the State of Virginia, burst open the houses of private citizens, and seized them and their property by force, and slaughtered ta the street iaoffeasive, unarmed men. He on-dertook. than and there to establish a revolution, ary government, and proposed to arouse there, to Iua4l there, thoa flame, of civil and servile war, ad to brinf apoa that peaceful community and Stat all thoae horrors ef massacre, desolation, raDtne and ravishment that follow in tha train f a e;ril and servile wai. 80 engaged, be was arrested ia the verj act of blood,red-hand-ad, with his mordarad victims at his feat, and kali to trial bj tha jostle oTUis QommoawaaI;h of Virginia. He was deliberately carried before a conrt of examining magistrates : he was, in the dne course of law, presented to the grand jury of tbe county ; be was by that grand jury indicted and arraigned before the courts of the state. Before those courts he received not only justice not only merciful treatment, but even more than. in the: ordinary course of the administration of justice, ts granted to prisoners in this Common wealth. He had each counsel assigned to him as be chose ; he had those counsel changed at bis will for other counsel, and he was deliber atelr and fully tried, and upon that full and de liberate trial he was convicted of a violation of the laws of Virginia ; and upon that couviction be was sentenced, and upon that sentence he was executed by the authorities of tbe State of Virginia. (Applause, and cries of " Good, " Ood.nl He was executed as bavin? iustlv forfeited bis life to the peace and to the laws of Virginia. Nay, m anticipation of this, he has enjoyed all possible resources of argument and investigation of the law, to see if there were any defect in the proceedings of the trial, and all such questions of law as his counsel able and learned n.en found to be competent, were carried to tbe highest court of appeal of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and there considered. I say to you, gentlemen, that, upon these facts, John Brown was duly and lawfully tried, convicted, sentenced, and executed, (applause ;) that rendered up a forfeited life to the justice of the State of Virginia ; unless, gentlemen, it were the fact for no other possible question of law could stand in the way that the 6tale of Virginia had no jurisdiction of the offence committed. If the State of Virginia had jurisdiction, then ber deter-mi nation of that question was to be unappealable on this earib. -That is the law of the land; that is tbe law of the State of Massachusetts ; and there are very many gentlemen her who, will: remember when a prisoner was capitally convicted in the State of Massachusetts, ;on due trial before our coartfl, how indignant the people of Massachusetts were that certain persons and journals of the States of New York and Penn. tsylvania. should presume insolently to question, the legality 'of this action of ihe courts of Massachusetts: It was for us to determine that qaes-tion, we said j and we said truly ; that is the fun-, damental principle of Stale sovereignty our undisputed rig'ht to try a criminal found red-handed on our own soil. Was there conflicting jurisdiction in this case? Gentlemen, it happeued to mc, when' administering the laws of tbe United States, to render an opif ion that the armory at Harper's. Ferry is under the exclusive jurisdiction of tbe United States, and in no part of tbe jurisdiction of the State ot V lrginia. . J hat opiuion was true. I know it. 1 ktsow it as well as I know the multiplication table, . or'. -that the square of the by pothenuse of a right-aogled triangle is equal to the square of the ttvo sides. Loud ' applause j The counsel for John Browu taid that this opinion was incompatible witTi the progress of tbe trial, inasmuch as. John Brown-must be indicted in the courts of ihe United States, and could not he tried in the courts of.. Virginia. - To this point of law, founded np n my opinjon, the counsel for tbe Com mon wealth replied, improvideutly, inconsiderately, uuwisely, ihbt my opinion was not good law ; that it might be good law in Mas sachnisetts, but it as not good'law ia Virginia; and thereuirtin the trial proceeded. I say that was an "ill-advised suggestion on Ibe paxLcf ibe counsel for he 0mnion wealth, because ft rreat4 ed the imprvsifn through ihe Northern States J that Virgitiia-had really usurped.tbe powerof the Unittd Stau s. Fr the law did riot reet npon my opinion. Tbre were adjudications of rourt after court througl-.tiut tbe Ut'in which establibh ed it. i say tbat was an ill-advised suggestion. Geritlemnn. if it had been so,. I say here, bnt in private 1 have, said to others, I myself would have done that inot ifevicious tbingfer me to do I would have gone to the Slate of Virginia, I would have appealed to Judge Parker, of the circuit court, i Senators Mason end Hunter, and to Governor W'i.-ie, of Virginia I would' have appealed to tl.eth- ty every consideratit.n of old aivd lone friendship and resoeet, I have appeal-id to their sense of honor and regard, not to the United Statss only, but to the Commou wealth of Virginia, todesis. from that procedure. Nay, I would have gone one-step further ; I wnuld have presented myself before the Chief J uatics of the United States, aud I would have obtained from Roger B. Taney a writ of error to appeal that question to the tribunals of the United Slates. Applause. Why did I not? Gentlemen, a day or two dissipated all the mists of this imaginary . question of law. True; acts of murder, acts, if you please, of treason, acts of burglary, acts of rapine, bad heen perpetrated upon the grounds cf tbe armory at Harper's Ferry, but not there only ; for John Brown, in this most in-insane whatever may be said of the character of the roan most criminal outrage, had been guilty of five violations of law, three of them, at least, capital felonies by the laws of the State of Virginia. He had perpetrated burglary, rob bery, incitement to sedition, treason, murder-three at least, I say, capital felonies ; and each one of these Capital felonies," whatever other fel onies he may have committed within the Jinits of Harper s r erry armory, he had perpetrated outside the limit of Harper's Ferry Armory, and in the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the Com-monweahh of Virginia. T Applauso. That was the law of this caee :,aod I now, therefore, say to yon, gentlemen I say it upon my judgment as a jurist, I say it on mv honor as a man that John Brown was duly and lawfully convicted, in full course of law ; that, whatever forms were involved, they were for the exclusive determination of tbe State of Virdinia; and there Vas no substantial question to be determined, for there was no question with regard to the guilt of the prisoner. ; Who says John Brown was not guilty ? Wbp says be did not commit burglary? Who says he did not perpetrate ir.vason and treason ! Who says he did not slay unarmed, inoffensive men in the streets of Harper s Ferry ? No man denies this. Nay, instead of denying this all that is said and done in regard to that is to as sume that those acts of atrocious, ferocious felony were mritorious acts! I say, then, gentlemen, all honor to the State of Virginia, loud applause, and cries of " good," "good," to her judicial authorities ; all honor to the State of Virginia that this traitor and murderer, appre-J bended iu the very act of murder and treason, was duly, fully tried and convicted according to the law of the land, not alone of the State of Virginia, but of every one of the States of the Union. (Applause.) Bat then, gentlemen. In these most extraordinary manifestations which have occurred in the State of Massachusetts and elsewhere prayer meetings, public assemblies of reioicing, and pretended subscription- (laughter and applause) in all these, it is said there is extenuation (if there bono other snggestions) applicable to the case, that should change' our appreciation of the character of tbe acts of John Brown. ."Extenuation!" What extenuation? .Gentlemen we bave been told that John Brown was maddened to perform these acts by a sense of tha wrong committed : upon him in the violent death of one of .bit zona in Kansas. That is a question of fac. Is it ao, gentlemen? Fellow' citizen; we' live' here in a populous Commonwealth, with all Ibe securities of life aitd peace around ns. nnder the shelter, not only of the lavs, but of our; relations to our fellow citizens. But go with me to one' of those fertile prairies of tbe far West; go with me to tbe frontier cab- ia f pioneer settle' i tbe far West, There gentlemen, in the dead of night, the husband reposing in tbe arms of his beloved wife, with their dear little due around them, in the fancied repose of their common security under the-laws of their country, I they are aroused from their slumbers by the treacherous approach of armed murderers. Tbei husband two husbands are torn from the areas of their wives, and ruthless ly slaughtered in cold blood. Nay, their youth- lul children are brained before their eyes Me thinks I can bear now the wailing cry of that poor woman, aianaia . LJovIe of that uabannv Louisa Wilkinson that wailing cry should smite upon tbe- ears and enter the hearts of every one of us as they cling to the limbs of the murderer and pry for the deliverance of-tbeir husbands and their children. But tbey spoke to a merciless beart, for they spoke to John Brown! iA voice "That has been denied."! I say, gentlemen.'denv it who will and who dare that man teas Join Btmcn. fL6ud cheers.l n .m ' .i' e tie was mere, nia sword dnrome with the core of those slaughtered, inoffensive, peaceful, slum bering men aud children and that sword came from the State of Massachusetts. I sav this is proved, it is proved by incontrovertible evi eviuence. xnat. nviuence exists on record in the report ol the! committee appointed by the J - rr .l . uouse ot Kepresentattres to examine into the disorders in Kansas. I say that murderous act of John Brown was the commencement of blood shed iu Kansas. And bv the lurid liebt of those blazing houses, and by the reflection of tbe demoniac cruelty of that man on that occasion by all that we have the key to events whith might otherwise have been yet in mystery. mat is tne commencement . of bloodshed in these United States, and it was in that same spirit that John Brown, with ' an insane ferocity of cruelty, proposed to consign the peaceful in- naUitants ot tbe State; of -.Virginia, the millions and millions of white men and white women, to servile insurrection and civil war. and to out rages indescribable, impossible to be imagined. worse than a million deaths. But it is said that John Brown was insane, and therefore that he should not have been convicted. as he insane? Gentlemen, I have manv times bad occasion in ibis Common wealth all reflecting men have bad occasion to meet a similar question. - .1 cannot, nieet-. that question without speaking plainly. Shall I speak p.ain'ly? General cri s of "Yes," "yes."j I suy, in this Com monwealth of Massachusetts, and in its aniuiuinir State of New York, there is a handful of men of highly intellectual mind; of tbe highest cul ture," literary and scientific; men who would seem to be born to bless their day and genera lion Wendvll Phillips. Llovd. Garrison. Waldo Emerson, Theodore Purker, aud Gerrit Smith- who, by constant brooding upon one single idea that idea,i if you please, a right one have beAnje monomauiacs of that i ca. (applause,) and have become utterly lost to the moral relations of right and wrong. In their private relations not oue of them would injure the baireven of my head, (Laughter.) Not one of them, unless upon the question cf slavery;' and then such is tbe atrocious ferocity of mind into which they have been betrayed by this monomania that tbey declare, in so many words and,, therefore I may say it is so-lheir readiness to break down all laws, human and divine nay, that, under the influence of this monomania, they have set up in this Commonwealth a religion of hate ye, a reliioa ifhie auch as tielongs ouly to the condemned dervila in Tiell. (Applause.) I' say it is a religion of hate aud and of blasphemy. Ob, God! that such things are in this our day. ' - ; Tbey have set np this religion of bate, and they blasphemously call that Christianity.,' I put this question to- yu, whether these demoniac passious and this ferocity upon the sul jectof shivery institutions have not sacrificed all there; is. in the human heart, and all there is divine iu ibe a-pirationa of human hearts to God and to Heaven? This they have done, and the question is asked, are they sasit? I cannot pronounce on that quention. What would a commission of lunacy , say upon that question? I know not. I know thai tbe.-imputed insanity of John Brown is that his intelligence has become perverted, that his heart is gangrened, that his soul is steeled against.' everything.:' human and consciousness by that same monomania which pervadts the fptecbes and writings of Weudell Phillips and Waldo Emerson. Are they insane? I say again, I know not, and yet I pause"to ask, have we not before us the spectacle most painful to every well-stltled heart, have we not the spectacle of one of their number, as wise in his day and generation as they, with the same pretences of good and of right, and the same perversion of Christianity and the Bibles-have we not before ns the spectacle of Gerrit Smith in a hospital for lunatics in the State f New York? I knr-w not, but I do say .tfcat unless all mono-maic abolitionists are to bo deemed insane and incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong, in a question of murder and of treason and of burglary . and of robbery, then John Brown was cot insane, and therefore was not entitled to any consideration upon that pretext; and we know well that he would have been the last to assume any such, pretext, we know well that he acted with that stolid indifference to the atrocity of his acts which in all time has distinguished political and religious assassins which may be found in the plot of Goy Fa wkes, which animated Ravaillac when be struck his poniard into the heart of a good and great roan. 'The same spirit animated the assassins of Italy, who to prevent the progress of moderate reform, and to substitute their own monomania, slaughtered Rossi at the steps of the Vatican. In Vienna ibe good Count Lemborg, and in Prague the Princess Wisdischgratz, were assassinated in the same spirit of insane attempts at political reform. That is the distinctive qualitj of these offences. The idea of John Brown is that by cold-blooded, fraudulent, midniarht assassination he is to promote the reform of tbe institutions of the State of Virginia aud of the Southern States. So, gentlemen, I now say that not only was John orown amy and legally tried and convicted, but that he was duly and lawfollv executed, and ren dered- up his justly forfeited life to the justice of the Mate of V irginia. TAnnlanse.1 What more, gentlemen? We have had our ears filled with alleged stnpathies for John Brown of apologies for his act, of reproaches against the persons whom he was endeavoring to glaugh- ter in cold blood, of sneers at the State of Virginia, of ridicule of the terror of the unarmed women and children of Virginia. I say sympathy for all this. Gentlemen, it is not sympathy for John Brown. It is another form of the manifestation of that same intense and ferocious hatred of the people of the sooth wbieb animates the persons of whom we are speaking. I Applause. J Hatred hatred! Now the fact has been told us that in all times hate must have its food of blood, aye, bate must bave its food of blood. How long are the people of Massachusetts to have their souls continually perverted with these preachings aye, pulpit preachings of hatred, though, thank God. these blasphemous preachers of hatred and treason aer but one to a thousand among the' admirable and revered clergymen, of Massachusetts. fApp-piaase.J I ask you, gentlemeu, how long these emotions of mutual hate are 10 ro on without shedding blood. Blood baa begun to boshed nay, not only has there been sheddirg of blood but ibatsheddisepf blood, coming from North ern States, has its avowed object to propagate mrounoni me tooutuern btatea revolution, asr- ile and etTil war e eiaraal ievistation. by, gentlemen, ia not that war in diguise? oeeks you, will to disguise it from your own tboughs, that is the thought in tha hearts of those persons who entertain these emotions. It ts war in disguise, and it presents this extraordi nary fact, gentlemen such a fact as exists nowhere else upon this earth in any Civilized coun try. Jt piesents tbe extraordinary - fact that, where a if any citizens of Massachusetts should fit out a hostile expedition against Canada, should prepare arms in the citv of Boston. should raise money and troops for the nnrcoae of invaaing England or r ranee, there is abundant law to punish that act. and to arrest the offen der in the prosecution of the crime; but in this Union there is no law to punish the fact that a citizen cf Ohio, Pennsylvania, or Massachu setts engages tn biting out an expedition of pri vate war and invasion and bloodshed against the oiaie 01 Virginia. cere im no law to lorbid it- It would Seem that our forefathers, in omitting to provide, had acted as we are told the old re publics did in regard to the crime of parricide uiey did not believe that anything so abomi nable could occur tn the United States, and therefore they provided no law to Duniah it. - Now, gentlemen, what would you think, and what would be your condition, if such an invasion of slaughter and of murder were aftemted by citizens of Virginia in Massachusetts? Would you not think it strange that you had no protection, by any law whatever, against such an act? that you were living in the Union, not for the purpose of enjoying is benefits, but only to be subject to nostue inroads trom other States? Would you not think that strange, extraordinary, incredible intolerable? What would you say if that state ot things went on year after year, even for a generation almost? What would you say if in the State of Virginia there were organized bands of invaders, armed by subscription societies in Richmond, who" entertained in their heart the sentiment of hatred which would cause them to plant those arms at your heart if they could reach it? Would von not sav. gentlemen, onen war is better than war in disguise? In open war we, al least, could meet our enemies face to face, and wiih the possible chance of a gal atit death with brave encounter with the foe: but to be slaughtered treacherously at midnight and no remedy for. that by the laws of the land gentlemen, that is an impossible state of tbirgs to continue in the United States. And et us not lay the flattering unction to our souls that we may, in the State of Massachusetts, continue to organize expeditions of rapine and reason and murder against the State of Vir ginia 1 say let us not lay that flattering unction to our souls. Way, we ought not to do it. If weare men. if we have a SDark of honor in na if we are not utterly corrupted, perverted, and lost to every sense of truth and of honor, are shail say and ouebt to sar. it is mean, it ia in describably, unspeakably nien to insist npon enjoying tbe benefits of the Union without participating in its burdens, and treacherous to de mand the execution of the bond of Union bv tbe State of Virginia and not execute it ourselves; it is hypocritical to approach and say: "Art thou well, my brother - for the purpose of stabbing him under the fifth fib. I say, it would be mean treacherous, hypocritical, to pretend that that state of things is to continue, and, therefore, we are here assembled to discountenance ail such sentiments, all such passions, and all such criminal enterprises on the Dart of the Deonle of ti.a Tforthern Slates against more of tte SmtW, We vaunt the greatness of the United States: our memories are filled with the reminiscence of the glories of the Revolution: we look back upon the Washingtons, tbe Greens, and the Lin coins of the days of the Revolution, aud we say that these heroes and demigods a-e not tbe heroes and demigods of Virginia or Massachusetts, but of the United States. We are one nation. We are one in constitutional bond:, we should be one in heart and patriotic devotion. Shall we in Massachuset's continue to nourish the senti tnents of mutual raneor and hostility upon an an abstract question wholly beyond our reach and authority? : If we do so, gentlemen, we know well the consequences. ' We know that not only must this federal compact break by its own weight, we know not only that tbe time baa come when we shail all have to say farewell to the glories of the Union, farewell to the vaunted glories of the American Union; but when there will be the more terrible and dismal spectacle of civil war upon our Own soil in Massachusetts; For, gentlemen, when we look forward to the consequences of a disruption of this Union, is the North then to invade the South for the purpose of carrying on an armed prosecution of these projects of interference with the institutions of the South? Will the North undertake that? Gentlemen, if the North does undertake that it will sacrifice everything of peace and honor for a delusion and a shade. Will the North do it? Gentlemen, are there not gallant and patriotic men enough in the State of. Massachusetts who," if any such traitorous purpose should be attempted against the South war of invasion for the destruction of the Union and the government of the Union are there not men enough here to seize the traitors by the throat, loud cries of "yes, yes," and great applause, and say, "You must walk ovefour bodies, you shall not engage in this fratricidal, suicidal, civil war with your fellow-citizens of other States!" I tay, that whenever this state of things approaches that war will not be upon Mason & Dixon's line, but it will be here upon the soil of New England, and upon those who declare that tbe Constitution of the country, between these who hate the Constitution of the country, between those who declare that the Constitution is a covenant with the devil and a league with hell I say, there will be war between them and those who are devotedly attached to the Constitution, and determined at all hazards to maintain the Union. Applause. Now, gentlemen, I have long enough occupied your attention. 1 will, however, suggest one other train of thought of a practical nature appropriate to the circumstances which surround us now in the State of Massachusetts. Gentlemen, we have bad depicted to us the horrors of civil war. We have seen what would come if this great and glorious Republic should, like others of tbe old time, explode under the convulsions of civil wrath, aud go down in destruction and dark ness to the realms of Erebus and Nox. We have seen the dangers; and is there a remedy? Can we avert these evils? - Can we contribute to avert them? We can, yoa can. Gentlemen, it is most remarkable in the present condition of tne state or .Massachusetts, that more than one half of tbe registered voters of the Common' wealth do obstinately and persistently refuse to exercise the elective franchise; aye, more that one half the registered voters of Massachusetts. And yet, tbe government of a State is that which the suffrages of its people provide. Tbe public opinion of a State is that which a majority, an apparent majority, of its people pronounce. What ia the voice of a majority of the people of this Stste? I say,mor than one balf of its registered votes have not, in speech or. act, at least to discharge that great civtt datr here to day in Faneui! Hall. "Will they go oa- from words to acts? Will thereby their acta, manifest their da votion and attachment to .tbe btmCf of Massachusetts? Gentlemen, 1 speak bare for no party. I lave bt own party prepossessions, strong enough as joa all know, bat I ear l speak for no party htre. But wool i that' yoa, the 123,003 registered voters of Massachusetts who do not vot,aod who bave the voice and vote of the State, and leave the foverotaent cf the State ia tbe land j f 3; 3 cir I wosll tiat joa would act. If you do not like tbe opinions -of either ot tne parties now dividing tbe country, rise in the majesty of your strength and crush them alll Applause.! A voice Tbey will do it at tbe proper time. I shall rejoice, sir, at any party defeat which may befall me, so that tne Commonwealth be restored to its proper place in that resplendent galaxy of the constellations of the Union. Gentlemen, a band of drunken mutineers bas seized bold of tbe political opinions of this Cora mon wealth avowed and proclaimed enemies of tbe Constitution of the United States; nay, equal ly clamorous enemies of tbe constitution of the State of Massachusetts; for these same persons denounce, vituperate, and calumniate, with 10 partiality of wraih, both the parties which no divide the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. say, a band of drunken mutineers have seized hold of the control of the public opinion of tbe Slate. Where is the helmsman? Who is he? f A voice, "Burnham. This response excited eboots of laughter. So apt seemed the answer. that every man in the hall, ludicrous as it was, was for a moment thrown from bis gravity. yy nere, I ask, is tba belmsmao? Has be sold himself to the mutineers? No gentlemen; but tbe mutineers stand with a pistol at bis head, commanding'nim to obey or diet And so the good ship of state drifts on drifts, drifts, with the storm howling around, drifts on towards the gulf of perdition, with the black of the pirate flying at the mizen; aye, and the practical death's head at the fore; black, black, all over from truck to keelson. I say, the good ship of State drifts 00 to perdition. (Loud and prolonged ap plause And where are you, the citizens of Mas sachusetts, who si ould ha her officers and. crew? That good ship is freighted with. all your earthly hopes you and your wives and and your dear dear children are there as passengers, and you all sit in torpid apathy, or shameful indecision, or stolid despair. You all sit and see the drun ken mutineers, as they are about to blow up the ship and all it contains, and yoa do not move a band to rescue her from ruin, and to carry ber back to the path of peace and security. I ap peal to you, citizens of Massachusetts, I implore you to awake from thiz lethargy! Rise. I say, in tbe majesty of vour might, people of Massachu settsrise in the majesty of your might, and redeem the honor and the fame of tbe good old Commonwealth, f Enthusiastic cheering 1 A Double Elopement. The New York Ledger tells the following good story : - - A well to-do farmer from Columbia County j came to New York a short time since to reclaim a daughter who had run away from his domicil with a young husband, whose throat the affec" tion ate old gentleman had threatened to cut from ear to ear. It seems that the mother the wid owed mother of this logicious son-in-law was a youthful sweetheart of the said old gentleman, nd jilted him in a peculiarly cruel manner. Hence his hatred of her son, and his wrath when he learned that bis only daughter, whose dying mother bad confided ber to hi tnderct caray bad married that son, and his threat to cut that sou s tbroat. The ireful father-in-law had but little difficulty n finding the boarding house of the youthful pair, but was deterred from visiting tbem by learning that they were guarded by the widow herself bis old and faithless betrothed. After much skirmishing, however, he one day ventured to ring at the door, when he supposed the widow gone out, and was ushered into the parlor where the widow herself was sitting. With a deep frown, he turned to retire, but was detained by small ha d laid gently upon his arm. It was the widow's hand. They were soon seated not far apart- Explanation was'satisfactory. She had always loved him; why was he so rash as to marry another before she had time to explain ? . It was rash, he admitted; nay, more it was wrong; and be was not the man to let a wrong go unrighted if he could right it ; so there he was old, to be sure, but tough and rich, and having much life and service in him yet. Would she help him set matters right? Of course she would. She was not a woman to balk the intentions of a repentant sinner. But what would the young folks say ? " No matter,7' said the tough old fellow, " we'll elope ; we have as good a right to do to as they had." Capital idea. Should be carried out immediately. They packed the widow's trunk, called a back. caught an evening train, reached Columbia County in safety, were married, and sent their cards to the astonished young couple, in New York, who bad become greatly alarmed at tbe widow's prolonged and unaccountable absence. The old gentleman was so well pleased with his covjrde matrimony , that be pardoned his daugh ter and son-in-law. The Southampton (Vajl Hegro Insurrection in 1831. The Journal of Commerce gives, a short and concise account of tba Southampton (Virginia) negro insurrection in 1831, beaded by Nat Tun ner, which spread such alarm through that Commonwealth, in consequence of the foul murders committed. The remembrance of Nat Turner andoflhe barbarities of his gang the inhuman murder of men, women and children, it was, that so started tbe people of the South when first the news of,Harper'a Ferry insurrection was conveyed to them by Telegraph. For a time nd one felt secure for none knew the extent of tbe insurrection, and every slave was suspected of complicity. Fortunately, Brown's hope of a general rising failed, and a security is again felt. Tbe Journal Commerce saysr "?A more successful attempt was made tn Virginia in 1831. The scene of massacre was in tba cotrcty . of Southampton, near tbe North Carolina border. One Nat Turner, a slave of Benjamin Turner, about thirty years of age, ignorant and fanatical, cmsgining himself sent by God to do a great work. His grandmother and mother bad kmg deluded bra with tbe notion that he was born for some extraordinary deed and be waa weak and foolish enough to embrace tbe delcsion .' lie succeeded in persuading a gang of bis faCow slaves ta risa xpea their owners, and perpetrate as indiscriminate massacre. It was a sodden outbreak of which cone were prepared. No such thing bad been known in the history ef the region. All was quiet and peaeeatle. 2?ct!ic vr targeted. Tie fs4- Interesting Dkictir. rols were scarcely ia existence. The taea Lai mostly gone to the camp meeting oc itsricialty. All looked fair without,' a bile a Tolcaaoewaa seething beneath. It was tbe month of Acrurt a month in which tbe ear becomes accustomed . to tbe lond sounds of tbe negroes, gathered ta their harvests sieging la concert, and efUa bsi looing at their work or play, as suits their taste t for tbey bave a special love for nocturnal revelry. Suddenly, on tbe 21st and 22ud of August, 1631, this band of desperate fellows rose upon tbe whites, and commented the mauaca of mea women an d children Among tha murdered were Mr. Travecs, wifa ' and three children, Mrs. TThitebe&d, ber toa, four daughters and one grandchild; lira. Walk and ten children; lira. Williams bet hosbandi and their two sonat Mrs. Jacob Williams and three children, with others, masters and over seers; in all, ffly-jite fell pleading for mercy from tha inhuman monsters. Guns, axes and swords were the weapons used in the murderous work compared with the destruction wrought by which, the scene at Harper's Ferry was one of mercy. The insurgent slaves bad all been das troyed or apprehended, tried and executed, with the exception of the ringleader, without reveal ing anything at all satisfactory as to tbe motives which urged them on, and the means by which they expected to accomplish' their object. All was wrapped in mystery, until Nat Turner, the leader of the gang,- who succeeded in biding himself for two months, was at length captured iu a cave by one man, Benjamin Fhlpps, who waa armed with a shot gun, and to whom Nat sullenly surrendered without offering any resis tance, though armed with a sword. He appear ed to anticipate his doom, and to yield to it as matter of necessity. He was thoroughly exam ined, and made free confessions both of bis deeds and motives, which were those of a finished aa atic Nat was bung on Friday after bis trial, which commenced November 5th. . An Unfortunate Family The Ohio Statesman relates the aad fortune of an unfortunate family. About six months ago, a man named John Sain, confined in tba Penitentiary having been sentenced from sv Cincinnati Court to that prison for life for tba shooting of the seducer of his daughter, whose) name was Richard Singletoe,-vas granted si new trial on error, and removed to tbe Hamilton county jail to await the pleasure of tbe Court. While confined in jail the dacghter, who, ta avenge, he had committed mnrder, also became an inmate of tha jail, together with a younger sister, whom tha older one bad seduced to lead an abandoned life, charged with grand larceny, Befote Kain'a trial came off, the daughters were) tried, found guilty and sentenced, and are now eervinaVtbeuTteTmsintha ..Penitentiary. Tba wear months rolled around, and Kain'a second" trial for the capital offense commenced. Sere-1 ral days were spent in taking testimony, and oa Tuesday last his fata was given to the jury. AP ter eight boars' deliberation, the jury returned a verdict of acquittal. After having spent a year in the Penitentiary and long months in a com4 mon jail, Eain in the language of the law waa permitted to fgo hence without day," while hie two children, the only ones be held dear oa earth, are occupants of the prison he bas escaped The Price cf. & iss. We translate from the Cuuicr det Elats Ukitt of Nov. 21,' the following little speculation, truly French, light, witty and1 amusing; "What is the legal price of a kiss, when tie parties have agreed on no sum by previous too tract? Seven years since, we remember a msg iatrate at Louisville, Kentucky, condemned a, young fellow to pay a married lady 5 damage for a kiss he had taken. As it is not to be im agined that kissing is cheaper in Kentucky thaa in New York, we must believe that tbe valuation) of the Louisville magistrate was so loW,ojly be oiuse the kiss was taken ia an adroit and deli' cate manner. James Sutherland of New Yorh would have come off equally as well, if be bad shown himself equally expert with tbe Kentucky' gallant. Bat, having attempted to snatch a kiaa from Mrs. Bolman, No. 17 James street, in the absence of her husband, be performed his task in a manner so rude, green and awkward, thai the lady justly indignsnt, made complaint before Justice Vorhees. The Justice, after bear' ing all the pros., and! eons,, condemned tbe da-' feodent to pay the fait plaintiff $20, by way o compensation. Thus, by the latest decisions the following are the legal prices of this article) The kissing of a married lady . if adroitly man' a;ed, $5; if awkwardly, The Knssian Empire. The territory is immense, stretching acrosl the north of Europe, across the north cf Aria) and across Behrlng's Strits into America.- Id population it already doables (hat of France' 43,000,000 serfs, 12,000.000 commoners, i,CC0 000 nobles the 48,000,000 serfs till of them U be freemen within fifteen years from the present-time. In agricultural, commercial and mineral resources, boundless. Think ot six heedfeJ Russian ships filled with wheat going to England1 for a market during one twelvemonth! The people, ibe cities, the customs, both oriental and! occidental oriental ia apptarancn, occidental ia life, energy and development. A coSntiy" new in appearance, like America poshing westward south wetward ta the Pac;c to confront the) Russia that is to be j and ia both America tzt Baasis, the mechanical am and intelTfgsace are epreadlng among the mams 'with unexampled fapiditj. 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